John Wedgwood Clarke: Poetry reading
John Wedgwood Clarke, Poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull

• Saturday 13 June 2015, 2.00PM to 3.00pm
• Free admission
  No booking required
• K/111, King's Manor, Exhibition Square (map)

Event details

York Curiouser poet John Wedgwood Clarke will read poems about York and the Yorkshire landscape including work from his 2013 collection Ghost Pot described as ‘a masterpiece that rewards continual rereading’ by Bernard O’Donoghue and selected by New Writing North for Read Regional 2015.  This reading is part of York Curiouser: the city explored through contemporary art interventions. York Curiouser has commissioned John Wedgwood Clarke to write a new poem inspired by York’s medieval stained glass which will be stencilled on a hidden passage in York as part of the re-installation of the York Curiouser 2014 series of poems ‘In Between’. This reading forms part of York Curiouser’s research during 2015.

About the speaker

John Wedgwood Clarke is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Hull. He regularly works with curators, scientists and artists on public art projects. His first full collection Ghost Pot (2013) was described as ‘a masterpiece that rewards continual rereading’ by Bernard O’Donoghue and has been selected by New Writing North for Read Regional 2015. Recent poems have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, POEM, The New Statesman, Best British Poetry 2012 and Poetry Wales. John is also UK and Ireland Editor for Arc Publications.  His series of poems In Between was installed around the city for York Curiouser last year. This year he has written a new poem inspired by the Medieval stained glass in York.

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